Webinar: COVID-19 public opinion results
Join us for our upcoming PIE Center webinar where we will discuss the results from our latest public opinion survey on COVID-19 and how these findings can be applied when developing communication strategies and managing compound disasters. Register here: https://bit.ly/2MMJNgz
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COVID-19 Effects on the Food & Agricultural System
COVID-19 Effects on the Food & Agricultural System – June 19th at 10:00 am EST. Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources Virtual panel discussion on COVID-19 effects on the food and agricultural system. Guests include: Commissioner Nikki Fried, A.G. Kawamura, former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Tom Vilsack, President and CEO of U.S. Dairy Export Council.
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COVID-19: Consumer Trends and Food Supply Chains
A new WLI podcast is available. You can listen to “Covid-19: Consumer Trends and Food Supply Chains” featuring Ms. Anne-Marie Roerink, President of 210 Analytics, as she discusses how consumer trends have shifted in light of COVID.
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CDC: Preparing for Hurricanes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Planning for hurricane season and other potential disasters can be stressful, and because the 2020 hurricane season comes during the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be especially so.
Public health and emergency response professionals have advice to help you safely prepare, evacuate, and shelter for severe storms while protecting yourself and others from COVID-19. Here are some tips to help you and your family stay safe during hurricane season this year.
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Podcast: 10 Best for Leaders in Selling Agricultural Products Online (Part 2)
Interested in selling agricultural products online? Check out the Part 2 of this episode from the Wedgworth Leadership Institute Podcast featuring Dr. Lauri Baker.
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Podcast: 10 Best for Leaders in Selling Agricultural Products Online (Part 1)
Interested in selling agricultural products online? Check out the latest episode of the Wedgworth Leadership Institute Podcast featuring Dr. Lauri Baker.
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Journey to Your Plate Infographic
Whether it’s a hotdog at a ballgame, burgers or chicken on the grill, or bacon on, well, everything … it’s hard to imagine a meal or gathering with family and friends where meat doesn’t play a starring role. The U.S. meat and poultry industry safely and reliably processes, packages and delivers a variety of meats every day to nearly 40,000 grocery stores and 650,000 food service facilities. Nearly 5.5 million people in beef, pork and poultry production feed 326 million Americans.
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Upcoming Webinar: Impacts and perceptions of COVID-19 from agriculture and natural resources leaders
| The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Center for Public Issues Education (PIE Center) and Wedgworth Leadership Institute (WLI) are hosting a webinar to give an overview of the unique challenges agriculture and natural resources (ANR) leaders are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic. PIE Center collected data from ANR leaders across the U.S. to find out their concerns related to COVID-19, specific effects leaders are seeing in agriculture and natural resources, and business impacts they are seeing. The survey ran March 16 through April 21, 2020. |
| The webinar will take place on May 6, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST. |
https://mailchi.mp/ufl/webinar-covid-anr-leaders
Read MoreFDACS: Estimated Crop Loss $522.5 Million
The Florida Seasonal Crop COVID-19 Impact Assessment was assembled utilizing phone interviews with growers on April 15, 2020. It must be noted that markets as well as selling and purchase strategies change rapidly, almost daily, for most crop sectors with the current conditions of the market. Fluctuations for some of the projected figures could be expected.
In addition to domestic crop losses, foreign, unfairly priced high volumes of Mexican imports continue to surge across the border, over-saturating the U.S. market and driving prices below the economical point to harvest, pack, cool and ship the domestic product.
Read MoreRe-Open Florida Task Force Meeting: Industry Working Group Related to Agriculture, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Management and Professional Services
Mike Joyner, President
Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association
April 22, 2020